CHAPTER XXVI.

Hearty Welcome in Tubuoi--Start for Tuamotu--Reach Papeete, Tahiti--Visit to Huaua--Leave Tahiti--Writer gets Relief from Seasickness--Broiled Fish and Cocoanuts--in a School of Whales--Thrown onto a Coral Reef--Total Wreck Imminent--Three Persons yet Ashore--Boat goes out to Sea--Wreck of Elder Dunn's Party--Three Days In the Sea, Clinging to a Capsized Boat--Clothing Torn off by Sharks--Skin Taken off by the Sea and Sun--Reach the Island of Anaa--Recognized by a Man who had seen me in a Dream--Preaching and Baptizing--Many of the Natives Church Members--Make a Rude Map of the California Gold Fields--Tell of Having been in the Mormon Battalion--Catholic Priests Elicit this Information as Part of a Scheme to have me Expelled from the Island.